Category: Travel Alaska and more
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Quilt Market Houston 2008
We’re back!! It was one of the best times I’ve ever had at Quilt Market! My daughter, Sarah Raffuse, made a great presentation at our Schoolhouse Session (late in the afternoon, so we offered chocolate at the door 🙂 and our Take & Teach Class was SOLD OUT before Market even opened (wow!). Here are…
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Gone to Quilt Market
A few updates without pictures. It’s been rainy and windy here, the snow is gone and now most of the leaves are off the trees. The bear has moved on and the bunnies are back. I managed to get all the kits cut for our Take & Teach class and quilted up 250 teeny tiny…
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Snow for Martha
Compare this one to my photo of Mt. Marathon from the 4th of July! This is for Martha in Louisiana 🙂 This next one is of the trees across the alley, just outside the garage door. My bunny friends hang out there, but right now there’s a black bear living there (no kidding!). Bear has…
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Crazy Shortcut Quilt Workshop at the Valdez Quilt Festival
Whooooowheeeeee!! I had the time of my life!! Sarah and I taught the most fun class I’ve ever been in and the quilters went home with just an hour or two of stitching left to have finished and quilted quilts! And guess what I found in Valdez? Rabbits! 🙂I taught my class on using a…
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Seward in August
Some photos I’ve take recently. Tom came home briefly, bringing the jitney in. This photo was taken about about nine or nine thirty at night. Earlier that same day a cruise ship left port. Notice the fireweed? The story goes that when the fireweed is done blooming, two weeks later it will snow. Today the…
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Valdez Quilt Festival Sept. 11-14, 2008
We are going to Valdez!! Sarah and I haven’t been there for years and we are looking forward to seeing the town again, cruising through Thompson Pass, taking photos of Bridal Veil Falls and Horse Tail Falls, and maybe finding some salmonberries. I used to drag Sarah (and sometimes her friends and cousins) all over…
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Adams Street, Seward, Alaska
Here are a few photos from today. We took our two vehicles out of the driveway to accommodate visitors to the festivities and at one point we had 4 vehicles in front of the house and 5 in the driveway. The street, as usual for the Fourth of July, was packed. The men’s race is…
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4th of July Weekend in Seward, Alaska
Sarah and Audrey are coming to see me on Thursday, and Audrey will stay with me for a few days. Seward is known for it’s 4th of July celebrations, the most famous of which is the Mt. Marathon Race. This internationally known race begins 2 blocks from our house, which is downtown. The race trail…
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Newborn Sea Lions
I have my tv station on a channel that broadcasts live from the Chiswell Islands, just south of Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska. I am watching the sea lion population as they climb out of the water, up onto huge rock outcroppings, to give birth. The rocks are covered with sea lions, the massive males…
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Crazy Shortcake Quilt finds a Home
While at Spring Quilt Market Sarah and I bumped into Maret from Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe in Anchorage several times! I love going all the way to Portland, Oregon to meet up with the Alaskans – lol! We showed her the Shortcake Quilt and offered to let it go live in her newly relocated…